repartitioning a hard drive

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My friend has A614x Hp pavillion. It came with 80Gig hard drive. We used
partitioon Magic 8.0 and produced a 11 gig C drive. We found out that was
too small and wanted to expand the C drive about 50%. However even using PM
8.0 the system will not allow any expansion except maybe a half a gig
because the recovery files are in D drive and it will not expand any to
allow space to be positioned into C or D drive.
Does anyone have any ideas other using the recovery disks to format the
drive and starting over?

Ken

 

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Hi Ken,

Are you remembering to shrink the size of the [D:] before expanding
the [C:]?

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
He esteems too lightly


Ken Strei wrote:
> My friend has A614x Hp pavillion. It came with 80Gig hard drive. We used
> partitioon Magic 8.0 and produced a 11 gig C drive. We found out that was
> too small and wanted to expand the C drive about 50%. However even using PM
> 8.0 the system will not allow any expansion except maybe a half a gig
> because the recovery files are in D drive and it will not expand any to
> allow space to be positioned into C or D drive.
> Does anyone have any ideas other using the recovery disks to format the
> drive and starting over?
>
> Ken
>
>
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The problem is that D drive can neither be expanded or shrunk. That's where
the operation stalls.
Ken
"C.Joseph Drayton" <kalek1@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Ken,
>
> Are you remembering to shrink the size of the [D:] before expanding
> the [C:]?
>
> Ciao . . . C.Joseph
>
>

 

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The only way out of the dilemma without destroying the programs and data is to
install a second hard drive, set up the partition sizes as you like them, then
copy contents from old drive to new drive using Ghost or one of the very nice
free programs provided by Seagate (Seatools) or Western Digital (Data
Lifeguard)... Ben Myers

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:04:05 GMT, "Ken Strei" <keds2@earthlink.net> wrote:

>The problem is that D drive can neither be expanded or shrunk. That's where
>the operation stalls.
>Ken
>"C.Joseph Drayton" <kalek1@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>news:426312d3_14@Output.100ProofNews.com...
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>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> Are you remembering to shrink the size of the [D:] before expanding
>> the [C:]?
>>
>> Ciao . . . C.Joseph
>>
>>
>
>

 

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Hi Ken,

I ran into a similar problem about a year and a half ago. The
recovery partition had files spread completely across (I have no
idea why). I did a defrag, and then ran PartitionMagic and all was fine.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
He esteems too lightly

Ken Strei wrote:
> The problem is that D drive can neither be expanded or shrunk. That's where
> the operation stalls.
> Ken
> "C.Joseph Drayton" <kalek1@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:426312d3_14@Output.100ProofNews.com...
>
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>>Hi Ken,
>>
>>Are you remembering to shrink the size of the [D:] before expanding
>>the [C:]?
>>
>>Ciao . . . C.Joseph
>>
>>
>
>
>
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